Maintenance Worker II -- Surface Water

The City of Woodinville is currently recruiting for a Maintenance Worker II position, focusing on surface water facilities.  Our Maintenance Workers help keep the City's facilities, parks, and other infrastructure functional and tidy by assuming responsibility for repairs and upkeep.  This position will primarily focus on maintenance and inspections of storm water facilities, including ponds, vaults, pipes, and other structures as needed to ensure compliance with the City's NPDES permit. However, all Maintenance Workers perform a variety of tasks related to street, parks, and facility maintenance.  

CLOSING DATE:  PLEASE APPLY BY 5 P.M. ON SUNDAY, MARCH 16. 

All new employees will be subject to a six month probation period commencing with the employee's most recent first date of hire. 

About the City
Woodinville, Washington is a premier tourist destination with a population of about 14,000, though the City will likely grow rapidly over the next five years or so. This growth is resulting in lots of exciting projects to work on. Located about 20 miles northeast of Seattle, Woodinville offers the benefits of a bustling urban area against the backdrop of the picturesque Sammamish River Valley. Woodinville is known for its tourism industries with over 130 wineries, breweries, and distilleries and numerous opportunities for outdoor activities.

It's a great place to work and we manage to do a lot with only about 50 employees, including planning, permitting, code enforcement, street/storm water maintenance, infrastructure construction and maintenance, parks, and general administrative services.

EEO

The City of Woodinville is an equal opportunity/affirmative action employer committed to achieving excellence and strength through diversity. The City seeks a wide range of applicants for its positions so that one of our core values, a qualified and diverse workforce, will be affirmed. The City of Woodinville fully embraces diversity and equal opportunity that represent a variety of backgrounds, perspectives, and skills. Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) compliance requires the City to provide reasonable accommodations to qualified individuals with disabilities. Prospective and current employees are invited to discuss accommodations.

POSITION SUMMARY: 

The purpose of this position is to perform a variety of skilled maintenance and repair tasks within the City’s streets, roads, storm water facilities, parks, and/or City facilities. This position assists in the oversight of the work performed by temporary/seasonal employees and volunteers doing installation, repair, new construction, program support activities, and maintenance work, or may function independently to perform tasks after receiving direction.

1. Manages and/or provides Public Works maintenance, including for streets, stormwater facilities, parks, or City facilities. May prepare work schedule for assigned seasonal or temporary workers based on priority. 
2. Conducts routine visual inspections of the City's infrastructure, e.g. parks, streets and/or storm systems. 
3. Manages the upkeep of the parks system’s appearance and cleanliness to adhere to City standards. 
4. May be assigned to assist in the City and private stormwater inspection program.  Includes coordinating with the City’s Surface Water Program Coordinator in inspecting each facility to verify compliance and providing follow-up inspection and enforcement. 
5. Works with other maintenance staff in making repairs, flagging, transporting materials and equipment, and other duties as directed. Performs installations, light construction, and landscaping and facility maintenance work in accordance with sound safety practices.
6. May assist in the oversight of the work of seasonal and temporary hires, contract labor, and volunteers to ensure that City standards are met. Assist in the review of potential seasonal employee applications. 
7. Operate construction equipment and heavy machinery. Ensures proper and safe operations.   
8. Responds appropriately to citizen inquiries, concerns, and requests for work; ensures prompt follow-up to requests and forwards major complaints to assigned supervisor.
9. Assists with the evaluation of necessary maintenance, equipment needs, and labor allocations for projects. Ensures the proper equipment is readily available and in working order.
10. Provides 24-hour response to emergencies, snow/ice removal, flooding, and other natural disaster events. Assists with the response to pollutant spill investigations, clean-up, and enforcement and responds to public inquiries and complaints.

Reviews work orders and plans; suggests changes to improve the finished project. Maintains public roadways and rights-of-way, parks and stormwater facilities, and City-owned facilities. Maintains a good public appearance and presence. Performs minor repairs and routine maintenance on City equipment, tools, and vehicles as directed. Repairs signs, fills potholes, and performs vegetation management throughout the City. May assist City Surface Water Program Coordinator as required or assigned. Replaces broken, outdated, or failing equipment or furniture throughout the parks. Establishes and maintains an effective system of communication within the City and establishes and maintains effective working relationships with others. Maintenance Workers are subject to call-back during emergencies on a 24-hour basis and may be required to work occasional evenings, weekends, or holidays during special events. Performs other duties as required or assigned.

Education, Experience, and Training:

 High school diploma or equivalent and five years of experience preferred. Must possess a valid Flaggers Certification and Washington State driver’s license. A valid Commercial driver’s license, if not possessed upon hire, must be obtained within the first year of City employment.

Knowledge of:

• General maintenance methods and materials.
• City policies and procedures.
• Basic operation of a backhoe, small dump truck, and general familiarity of general construction equipment.
• Landscape maintenance and procedures.
• Chemical use and proper sanitation methods.
• Irrigation systems.
• Traffic control for construction sites.
• Tools and equipment (motorized and hand) used in maintaining and repairing facilities, buildings, and grounds.
• Basic carpentry, electrical, and plumbing skills.
• Occupational hazards and standard safety practices.
• Methods and techniques of repairing and maintaining streets and stormwater systems.
• Heavy equipment operation techniques.
• Safe use of pesticides.
• Applicable software and technology.

Ability to:

• Prepare, understand, and follow written and oral instructions.
• Take responsibility and perform duties with limited or no supervision.
• Motivate and supervise assigned personnel to achieve effective results.
• Monitor projects and assignments and evaluate costs, personnel time, and effective of work performance.
• Perform skilled maintenance and repair work in the area of work assigned.
• Interpret and apply City standards and maintenance policies and procedures.
• Perform basic mathematical computations accurately.
• Operate a variety of cleaning, vehicular, maintenance, and repair equipment in a safe and effective manner.
• Troubleshoot problems and resolve non-routine maintenance issues.
• Work independently in the absence of supervision.
• Set and meet schedules and timelines.
• Ensure a safe work environment from occupational hazards and utilize standard safety practices.
• Maintain effective audio/visual discrimination and perception.
• Train assigned personnel on the use of tools, equipment, and materials to perform assigned duties.
• Understand instructions: analytic and problem-solving ability, initiative, precision, alertness, ingenuity, memory, concentration, reasoning ability, and judgement.
• Display patience and persuasiveness when interacting with other people.

 

JOB DEMANDS AND WORK ENVIRONMENT:

 Work is performed both indoors and outside. Outside work will require the operation of motorized vehicles and equipment, and exposure to varying weather and terrain conditions. Must continuously stand, walk, grip or feel with hands, and reach with hands and arms; frequently stoop, kneel, crouch, crawl, and talk or hear; occasionally sit, climb or balance, taste or smell, and lift objects weighing up to and more than 100 pounds. Work environment has exposure to indoor environment, outdoor environment, noise, extreme temperatures, vibration, moisture and/or humidity, dust, fumes, gases, poor ventilation, electrical hazards, mechanical hazards, chemical hazards, explosive hazards, burn hazards, potential for violence/physical altercations, classroom setting, sharp objects/tools, radiation, traffic hazards and extreme road conditions. Necessary aptitudes include perception of detail, finger and manual dexterity, eye/hand/foot coordination requiring close vision (clear vision at 20 inches or less), distance vision (clear vision at 20 feet or more), color vision (ability to identify and distinguish   colors), peripheral vision (ability to observe an area that can be seen up or down or to the left and right when vision is fixed on a given point), depth perception (three-dimensional vision, ability to judge  distances and spatial relationships), and ability to adjust focus (ability to adjust the eye to bring an object into sharp focus). The nature of the work may be fast paced with repetitive and frequent interruptions. The position requires a flexible schedule, which may include irregular hours.

Salary : $64,669 - $88,504